Word: proved
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Some politicians are beginning to press for revisions in federal spending policies. They reason that their states can no longer afford to pick up the tab, like patsy older brothers, to fatten other parts of the U.S. The issue is likely to prove a prickly one for the next President, particularly if he hails from a place like Georgia. Sensing its deepening distress if not decay, can anyone fault the Northeast and Midwest for wanting at least to break even...
...Freud were living at this hour, he would not have to ask "What does a woman want?" The answer is a big serve. The spectacle of women trying to prove that anatomy is not destiny and ?temporarily, at least, turning into cavepersons on the mixed-doubles courts as a result?may be either good news or bad in the long run. One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is Anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies...
...rare lapse from his usual impermeable poise, the screenwriter confessed, "Control entails responsibility, and sometimes I just don't know what's going on." Vidal expects his appearance on TV's Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which he will film in Hollywood next month, will prove less perplexing. "To understand Mary Hartman is to understand America," he said. "If Tiberius had watched the show, he would still be alive today...
Concentrated Misery. Odysseys and exiles-melancholy rather than exuberant-are the motifs of this book. At the age of 17, Sevareid and a high school friend traveled the 2,200 miles from the Mississippi River to Hudson's Bay in a secondhand 18-ft. canoe to prove that two red-blooded American boys could connect the waters of the Gulf of Mex ico to the North Atlantic. As Sevareid remembered it 15 years later, the expedition was "sheer, concentrated misery." For years afterward, "a visit to the woods produced a moment of nausea...
...Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic and liberated modern wom an can identify with, but it is a silly business. Olivia de Havilland could prove her fighting spirit with a word or a glance and not suffer even the tiniest rip in her bodice. Poor Bujold, on the other hand, must come close to being stripped to the waist by Shaw's rapier - a dishonorable dueling tactic that his gallant screen forebears would never have indulged...